Abstract: An improved packing container forming apparatus is disclosed. In the arbor turret type packing container forming apparatus, the improvement comprising a plurality of arbors arranged in tandem on a rotary packing drum in the axial direction, an aluminum foil suction ring for forming an aluminum bag with its one end closed in combination with the corresponding arbor by winding a sheet of aluminum foil around the arbor in the first rotary row, a package paper suction ring for forming a package paper bag with its one end closed in combination with the corresponding arbor by winding a sheet of package paper around the arbor in the second rotary row, and a shifting mechanism including a pair of racks and a pinion for shifting the arbors in the first rotary row to the second rotary row in a consecutive manner.

Abstract: A paper pressing device has a pair of presser plates being positioned opposite the lateral faces of an arbor. The opening and closing operation of the presser plates is conducted by a lever which is engaged with an oscillator by a spring. The oscillator adjusts the length of the spring so that the pressing force of the presser plates is constant irrespective of the force of inertia.

Abstract: A packing machine, wherein an indexible turret carries an annulus of hollow mandrels for arrays of cigarettes, has a tongs which delivers a flat blank between two neighboring mandrels during each period of dwell of the turret, and such blank is placed against the front side of the mandrel therebehind, as considered in the direction of movement of the turret. A biasing member is installed between each pair of neighboring mandrels, and the biasing member which is adjacent to a mandrel that is contacted by a freshly supplied blank is thereupon moved against the outer side of the blank to urge it against the front side of the mandrel. The blank is then converted into a U-shaped body overlaying the front side and the lateral surfaces of the respective mandrel while it is held by the adjacent biasing member.

Abstract: Blanks are produced from a continuous sheet (3) of material comprised of plastic-coated paper. Said blanks are conveyed on an expanding mandrel carousel (13) to a bottom weld flap forming station (17) and then transferred to a filling carousel (19). The packages which have been formed from the blanks are filled at a filling station (20) and sealed at a top seam welding station (23). A top weld flap forming station (26) and a top weld flap sealing station (29) are disposed on a top forming carousel which adjoins the filling carousel (19). The finished packages are discharged at a discharge station (30), to a discharge turntable (31). The machine may be used for manufacturing packages for liquids, e.g. milk or juices.

Abstract: A packing machine for cigarettes, in particular for soft packs, with a plurality of pack-forming assemblies 1-16, has at least one operating member 21-23 in each assembly which is movable, e.g. to clamp a sheet of foil 300 or a paper lable 400 against a packet mandrel 20. The assemblies are each indexed past a number of stations at each of which a drive shaft 33 (FIG. 3) engages a coupling shaft 35 connected to the respective operating member. The shafts lie perpendicular to the direction of movement of the assemblies and they engage with one another through a tongue 34 and fork 36 coupling.The coupling shaft 35 may be connected to the operating member through an eccentric 52 or, where the operating member has to be moved linearly, through a rack and pinion 61.

Abstract: A machine for making non-cylindrical paper container, including wings for wrapping a container blank around a non-cylindrical mandrel. The wings each have a supplement wing portion pivotably attached thereto, and as the wings are moved into the mandrel-engaging position, a mandrel-contacting part of the supplement wing portions that abuts against the mandrel causes those portions to swingingly approach the mandrel. In this manner, the wing portions may move unobstructively past the mandrel as the wings and wing portions wrap the blank against the mandrel.

Abstract: A cartoning machine which folds a carton blank into a carton having a box body and a box lid which are connected together during a single rotation of an intermittently rotating rotary body. The rotary body is provided with a plurality of pairs of positive dies, each pair of positive dies having dies respectively corresponding to the box body portion and the box lid portion. Disposed at certain angular intervals around the rotary body are a magazine for supplying carton blanks, a box body folding device having a box body negative die, a box lid folding device having a box lid negative die, and an ejecting section for discharging completed cartons. Cartons are continuously formed by the intermittent rotation of the rotary body and the relative movement between the above two box folding devices and the pairs of positive dies, the dies in each pair being movable back and forth separately.

Abstract: A carton magazine apparatus, carton feeder apparatus and carton loader apparatus for feeding and loading erected cartons, in pairs, on a pair of mandrels for forming the bottom end of the cartons. The carton magazine apparatus includes a pair of carton magazines disposed in side-by-side, spaced apart positions, with each of the carton magazines containing a plurality of flattened cartons. The carton feeder apparatus includes a pair of swingably mounted carton feeder arms, with one of the carton feeder arms being operatively disposed adjacent the carton discharge end of one of the magazines and the other carton feeder arm being operatively disposed adjacent the carton discharge end of the other magazine. The pair of carton feeder arms are operable to simultaneously withdraw a flattened carton from each of the carton magazines and move them into an erected tubular position in alignment with a pair of mandrels on a packaging machine.

Abstract: A cigarette packing machine of the type where a hollow packet or wrapper presenting an open head side and a closed bottom side is formed around a tubular mandrel or arbor, and a pushing plunger is provided for ejecting a group of cigarettes previously inserted at the interior of said arbor in the direction of the closed bottom side of the wrapper, further comprises a slip-off device for slipping the hollow wrapper off the arbor concurrently with the displacement of the cigarette group promoted by the pushing plunger. The slip-off device consists of a rotating friction roller arranged towards and away from said arbor, so as to cause the engagement of its peripheral friction surface with the wrapper formed on the arbor.